'Earl of Mount Edgecumbe'. ( 5043)
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When built in March 1936 the engine was named Barbury Castle and it carried this name for the first eighteen months of its working life before being renamed by the GWR to Earl of Mount Edgcumbe in September 1937, this name it would carry for the rest of its working career. Its original Barbury Castle name would later be used by 5095 which was built in 1939.
In 1958 it became one of sixty-five engines to be fitted with a double chimney which was undertaken between 1956 and 1961. It is one of only two Castles in preservation to be fitted with a double chimney, the other engine being 7029 Clun Castle.[2]